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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5809048" data-attributes="member: 10479">Yeah, but there are different ways to introduce and different games to introduce them to.  I certainly agree getting new players to play is a good thing and getting them to play repeatedly is a laudable goal, but I wouldn't introduce a new player to a combat miniatures game by instructing them to always speak in character nor would I introduce them to a combat miniatures game that had speaking in character as a primary focus of its desig.  There are better combat miniatures games that focus on the combat elements.  At gamedays, at Gencon, and at Little Wars conventions I run some intorductory combat miniatures games for kids and their parents (or with their parents overseeing them) in a number of styles of play and its a blast.  I do it to introduce new players to the hobby and because I was only ten years old or so when I began wargaming in the early Seventies and some likeminded souls were kind enough to teach me and let me play.<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KY0RW9E1r2g/TGdYpH7FhtI/AAAAAAAACu8/6WOTATPtnGw/s576/101_0185.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pi1eq7ViwJY/TGdbWr3Ox5I/AAAAAAAACv4/F-pc2ROww-o/s576/101_0204.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ApNUwb0PMkM/TGdcbRbkHiI/AAAAAAAACyQ/ghO-lJvb3Yc/s576/101_0246.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AQKTnm2SRLI/TGdclpAxAUI/AAAAAAAACyo/ch0ij2OGmFg/s576/101_0251.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8rzomBn6GD0/TppLCXP8krI/AAAAAAAAEVw/BuMXQSGFJds/s576/2011-10-15_EN_Chicago_Gameday_XXX_09.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aMFKK3D5WOU/S9J8YE0QyxI/AAAAAAAACLQ/JQFmATmC0Wk/s576/HPIM0955.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vEkB7d7wkZA/S9J_8CAu6ZI/AAAAAAAACN8/DG-waK0qa48/s576/HPIM0988.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ipKMrvl6bio/S9KAH--Q_UI/AAAAAAAACOI/YcyFU5xKcDA/s576/HPIM0990.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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